BECK'S NEGATIVE TRIAD

• WHAT DOES BECK FOCUS ON IN THEIR APPROACH?

  faulty information processing
• WHAT ARE SCHEMAS?

  organised clusters of information (mental "filing cabinets")
• WHAT ARE SELF-SCHEMAS?

  long lasting clusters of information about our identity
• WHAT DOES BECK ARGUE PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION DEVELOPED?

  negative self-schemas through their childhood
• WHAT DO SELF-SCHEMAS LEAD TO?

  biases in adulthood
• EXAMPLES OF BIASES IN ADULTHOOD?

  • minimisation
  • absolutist thinking
  • magnification
  • personalisation
  • selective perception
  • overgeneralisation
• HOW TO REMEMBER ADULTHOOD BIASES?

  MAMPSO
• WHAT IS SELECTIVE PERCEPTION?

  drawing conclusion based off one element of a situation
• WHAT IS MINIMISATION?

  downplaying the importance of a positive thought, emotion or event
• WHAT IS PERSONALISATION?

  attributing personal responsibility for events not under a person's control
• WHAT IS ABSOLUTIST THINKING?

  'all or nothing'
• WHAT IS MAGNIFICATION?

  blowing things out of proportion
• WHAT IS OVERGENERALISATION?

  making sweeping conclusions based on a single event
• WHAT IS THE NEGATIVE TRIAD?

  think negatively about the self, world and future